Topic: Bravely Default II (Nintendo Switch)

@BruceCM yea, for some reason it barely, if ever works. Same goes for poison. Both are super useful yet I can never seem to utilize them.

I'm using the following..
Gloria- white mage and freelance
Elvis-bard and red mage
Adele, monk and dragoon
Seth- monk and freelance

I have every job mastered thus far by at least one member just in case I need it.

Edit: I can't remember my levels exactly but I know we're high 30s at this point

Had someone mastered vanguard, @NintendoByNature ....? That should be a pretty good team, although it may depend on Elvis's job level in Bard! Whomever is failing to put Gladys to sleep might need either another level or 2 in their job? Anyone doing well in Shieldmaster, then, as that might help, too?

@BruceCM yea so vanguard is mastered by Seth and maybe Adele as well? I can't recall. I think Elvis has 2 more levels to master bard at this point, and I know Adele mastered shieldmaster. I'll try again tonight and see how I do.

Cool, so Adele maybe shieldmaster/ vanguard, @NintendoByNature .... Elvis should be good levels there, then, it's probably just a little tweaking needed! Not sure I really have much better advice, so maybe others remember that battle & have some ideas, too?

@BruceCM thanks again. I'll see what I can do tonight. Just that sleeping thing really bothers me. Not sure why I have to inflict it so many times with a low success rate.

Well, it's one approach, @NintendoByNature ..... I didn't do it that way myself, as I hadn't started Elvis on Bard in my 1st play-through & juggled around what jobs I did have with some levels in! It was tough that way but it's definitely possible as an option! Just make sure to dispose of Helio ASAP & never default

@BruceCM got it. I've been shy about going right after helio until Gladys is sleeping bc of that guard she puts up for him(everytime you strike him she hits you).

@X-Slayer all good stuff. Thank you for the help. I'll try some other status effects.

Yeah, I'm sure the sleep idea is a good one, @NintendoByNature .... Just that it's definitely doable without that, if it's proving too much hassle Debuffing her attacks definitely helps, I was doing plenty of that with my party, though

Currently my JRPG of choice this; on Chapter 4 I believe and just finished the “story” in the snowy city which really upped the drama a fair bit.

Like the last two games, I’m constantly switching jobs with the aim of bringing all up to level 12. If all the jobs are meant to take up 2 bookmarks columns then I am approx 3/4 of the way there.

@BruceCM well I was able to progress last night with no help to sleep or poison. Mostly just went hard on helio then slowly chipped away at Gladys. I did 20+ attempts at sleep and none of them worked. I gave up honestly. Love that game mostly, but not that little frustrating stuff

Yeah, I think I'll probably try to do it as much like the same as possible when I get there again, then, @NintendoByNature ..... Generally, in this game, buffs & debuffs work pretty well but glad you're past that battle, anyway Keep us posted!

@X-Slayer it absolutely does, I got to a point by the end game (including final final boss) where an enemy alone against you simply never gets a turn

@X-Slayer @Balta666 wow I'll have to give that a try.

@X-Slayer got to Domenic and it's also proving to be tough. I have to look at the abilities a little more in depth to see how to set up this revenge attack. He does a great job of destroying my party when he has 3bp all in 1 shot.

@NintendoByNature in general a good tactic is to default the whole team when that happens to be able to take the damage and then unleash hell on the opponent

@Balta666 ya for sure. I did try that a couple times. The funny part is, I destroy him most of the battle and never once do I feel like I'm teetering on the edge of losing. All of a sudden, bam, my entire team goes down. Its an odd boss battle bc of that.

You have got at least 1 sands of time accessory, right, @NintendoByNature ....? Bard's really good against him, along with if you have Pictomancer & even better if you nearly mastered that Let us know how it goes

@BruceCM I have the sands of time pendant( only 1 though as I just got it). Does it matter who uses it? I also have pictomancer and bard fully mastered at this point. But what abilities should I be using for those two jobs?

Well, he uses mostly magic, so your 1st priority is to decrease that, @NintendoByNature ..... His 'nasty' triple attack is actually ONE move! Then, several jobs do have abilities that can protect you from his 'stop', which is otherwise a big nuisance & the accessory for whomever seems most likely to need it out of the rest of your party!
Your main problem after that is his weakness being dark, which most of your party can't really target & that's where your pictomancer comes in with scuro! Beastmaster is supposed to be really useful, too but I didn't have one, so I don't really know much about them.